Summer Learning Journey: Week 1 Day 1 Activity 1

This week we started on our first activity for week 1. For this activity we had to list 10 foods that we would choose to take on a ocean voyage. I picked food that wouldn't need to be refrigerated, this was quite hard as most of these foods are not really tasty to people.

Activity 8: When the Rubber Hits the Road

Karlos - I have accomplished being confident while speaking in a crowd. I feel like this is a great achievement because now I can talk without feeling nervous

Jayden - I have accomplished getting better at tennis by the years. I think this a good achievement because I think I can become a professional tennis. 

Giovanni - Winning a reward in the First New Zealand Lego League Competition. This was a great accomplishment for me because it was my first time experiencing.

For the 8th activity we had for the task today was to learn about 3 people's accomplishments. Something I found interesting was Jayden getting better at Tennis and wanting to become a professional tennis player.  

Summer Learning Journey : Week 1 Day 2 Activity 2

For this activity, please think about this issue of the gender pay gap carefully. It is quite controversial (some people agree with it and some people disagree with it).
On your blog, tell us what you think. Is it fair? Why or why not? Be sure to explain exactly why you feel the way that you do.

I think that the gender wage gap (at least in sports) is false, the amount of money that a sport receives is based on the attention that it gathers. Football is the most watched sport in the world, and therefor, its players will earn more money than players of rugby. You might say that it's sexist for women to be paid less than their male counterparts but I say that it's just the factor of attention. The main reason why females are paid less than men is because they're weaker. Men are genetically stronger than women, and that's why whenever a transgender man joins a female league, they'd dominate the competition. Tell me, when the male and female rugby world cups were on; which match lineups would you pay more attention to? What team would you care more about? The reason for male sports being more popular is due to their strength, in a sport like rugby it's far more entertaining to see huge guys crash into each other, than it is to watch smaller women do the same thing.

Activity 1: New Zealand Royalty

Today we started on the teaser task for the summer learning journey. The first activity was based about lorde. I needed to research about lorde and list 5 facts about her. The topic of this year summer learning journey is about change makers.

Tennis

This week we had another session of Tennis. Before we got into the actual practice, we were given a warm up to stretch our arms and legs. After the warm up game, he taught us a skill called (volley). It is when you strike the ball before it bounces towards the ground.

A Journey with a Shoe Life

My mouth was wide open, only to be filled by a huge stinky socks. I liked my hair messy, until tied my owner tied it tight. I didn’t really like him because he kept getting gum, dirt and lots of things on my bottom. Everytime he kicked a ball, it would hurt my face especially my nose. When I got exhausted, he just kept getting stinkier. My owner was annoying, he was so fast he always got my hair untangled. Getting back home was a relief, I could just sit down and sleep. As my owner grabs me, he throws me to the garbage, as I was falling I saw another pair of flash shoe.

 This week for Writing, we were giving Objects inhumane quality (Personification). As for the object, we chose a shoe. Te Pounamu and I were paired up. This was also a challenge because we had to face back to back, no communication was allowed either. 

Swimming

This week on thursday we went swimming, we learnt lots of new techniques during the session. The technique I like the most was the stream line. The point of swimming wasn't mainly about having fun but was mostly for water safety. We were asked by our instructors (James) would we rather have a broken leg or a broken head. If I accidently fell into a river, I would rather face my leg towards the rocks then than my head. I could live with a broken leg, but with a broken head I would suffer or even die. Water safety lesson could help you in different kind of situations. After we had to swim across the water without touching the ground, this was fun because there were lots of techniques I learnt.

Rhythm Interactives Vist to PBS

This week we had an special visitor named Johnny, Johnny played music that had important messages. Johnny hosted the Drum Show in the hall, which the whole school participated. He played music from a drum known as djembe, which we followed the beat of his drumming. As we were drumming we also sang small phrases that had important messages. I found this quite fun because it was funny and really loud which allowed me to go all out of enjoyment. Before the Drumming Show started, the year 8 & 7 had to collect a junior and help them with what to do in the show. After the Drum show ended, Johnny was giving out drums to PBS if we had given the correct answer.

The Life Jacket Disaster/ Narrative

“Elijah are you bored?”
“Yeah Kind of Spencer."
"Have you heard of the story called Life Jacket Importance, Elijah?"
“No, Why Spencer?”
“Let me tell you the story Elijah.”

It all started with a stormy night when the clouds were dripping tear drops. There was a kid named Jenesis who was soaking wet. At school he was usually naughty which is why his dad wanted him to change. Jenesis', dad Michael, waited for an opportunity to take him fishing to see if he could reason him as to why he’s always so naughty.

When Jenesis got in trouble, he was sent back home. Michael saw an opportunity and took it. As they went fishing, Jenesis' attitude began to change and his angry face began to fade away as his smile got bigger. Suddenly the smile changed. A huge wave pushed them in the direction of a rock they couldn’t avoid launching both of them into the water. It was like the waves just reached up with their huge arms and hugged them closely. A little bit like when your mum hugs you so tight you can’t breathe. As they dropped into the water, the boy floated as he had a life jacket on but his dad was sinking into the sea.

“Hey Spencer did Michael drown?”

The boy was screaming help as his dad was at the fate of death until he saw his dad swimming towards him. Jenesis looked around his surroundings and saw his dad's life jacket floating in the water. His fear was overtaken by his smile as he started to swim towards his dad's life jacket.

He began to cry. If only he could remember the swimming lessons he learnt at school which he disrespected so much. He reached the life jacket and he threw to the position of his dad. Micheal reached up in the air and grabbed onto it while breathing heavily. Jenesis was so thankful that his dad was alive.

After the disaster that happened Jenesis even went to say sorry to his school.

Ballet

This week we had a special guest named Chloe, she flew from Wellington to Auckland. Chloe was teaching us ballet, she taught us dance moves that were included with our choreography dance we were going to perform. This was the first time I experienced how ballet felt, it was quite difficult as you sometimes had to be flexible to perform a specific move, but it was usually fun. What I found cool was how we had to make our own pose during the choreography dance. What was really difficult at some point was kicking up in the air and rolling around the ground. Thank you Chloe for teaching us ballet and for making it fun.

Waltzing Matilda

This week for reading, we talked about the main idea about Waltzing Matilda. We also had to back up our main idea by writing down true details from the text. We then made a summary DLO about Waltzing Matilda. In this DLO we added 20 important words, which we then narrowed down to 6 most important words out of the 20. Using those 6 words, we had to make a summary about the poem, Waltzing Matilda. The poem was about a Swagman who stole a sheep from a farmer, which the farmer than called the troops to catch him. The Swagman was well aware that the troops was under his tail, until he escaped them and was never seen again.

Literary Devices

This week for reading we were challenged by Mrs Anderson to make a DLO about Literary Devices but only on a google document. This challenge was quite hard because usually I make a DLO on google drawing which google drawing has lots of creative things. In our DLO we showed explanations, examples and a picture to give the reader a big thinking.

Here is the link to my DLO.

Stardome Trip

On Thursday Night the LS2 Year 7/8 went to the stardome observatory. The purpose of this event was mainly to learn about space. We left school at 5:30 and left the observatory at 7:20. There is lot of information about planets which you can explore and learn all around. We were first got introduced to a animation which was casted and shown by Tobias. This animation showed us how constellations work, constellations are stars that are formed to its identified figure, there are different mythology meaning, different cultures have different beliefs. They also showcased a close up look towards Jupiter and Saturn.     

Introducing Penguins

This week we gathered information about penguin, then we used that information for our planning. The reason why we planned, is because we were trying a challenge, which was, we could only use information gathered from our planning to make a infographic. The three main three property we used were Appearance, Diet and Habitat.

Introducing Penguins

Is it just me or are we both clueless for not realizing that a weird walking animal named penguin is a type of bird. Penguins are different to ordinary birds as they can not fly or glide, they don’t even have Wings and are completely flightless. Penguins are aquatic creatures and have flippers to swim they're way through the water which is often called (rocket). They’re often hunted by sea lions, some may have had brutal deaths. The scientific name for penguins are recognised as Spheniscidae.

Penguins are bigger and taller than normal birds, nearly all type of penguins have an black back and white in the front as feathers.

As all birds have, a penguin has a yellow beak. Some penguins even have patterns, like the humboldt penguin. They even have flippers.

The emperor penguin is considered the tallest and heaviest among all penguins. The smallest penguin is called the little penguin.

Penguin life is truly sad being the favourite food of an Leopard sea Lion. (Sea Lion)

Penguins mainly eat fish, but can also consume Squid, Krill and Crustacean as an diet.

Crustacean is a Type of Animal that lives in the water and is a type of aquatic. A common thing people do, is misunderstand Crustacean for an prawn.

“Never knew a type of bird lived in antarctica”  “me either”, “I’d expect any type of bird frozen to death by the time the clock has past 30 minutes”

Antarctica is a freezing place (ice biome) it contains lots of high ice structures and spices well known as penguins.

Antarctica is not the only habitat where penguins take on, there are many countries where penguins live in, but they are usually different types.

Kiwican

This week at kiwican, our term 2 topic was focused on Integrity. An example of integrity would be setting up an good example when no one's looking. Then we had an roleplay of what honesty looks like. There were 4 groups, each group had different ideas. Our group had an wallet as our idea, our role play, was a guy who lost his wallet while going to the shops. Then a random man picked up his wallet and gave it back to him. Telling the truth to your friends will help you earn their trust, or it will help with connections. The thing I found interesting is that owning up to the truth rather than hiding it will prevent a bigger consequence.

Place Value Partitioning

As you can see this DLO shows the strategy of place value to solve addition problems. During our maths session we practiced our place values by answering word questions and addition problem. When I was answering the words question I had to look for the maths so that I knew what numbers to work with. What I found interesting is that this strategy is really useful against addition questions and not useful with multiplication, this had shown me that different strategies are useful for different maths question. 

Inquiry - Continents Of The World

Today we have been given an interesting challenge by our teacher. This challenge was to create a DLO in ten minutes about the different continents in the world, and the countries that live among those continents. Once we had created the DLO, we then could find at least 3 interesting facts about the different continents. The reason as to why we did this challenge was to expand our general knowledge about the world and different continents. For this activity I worked with Joseph and we had a lot of fun finding facts, and finding information.

Stretching a Sentence

Have you ever wanted a detailed sentence? This DLO shows how to stretch a sentence, the purpose of stretching a sentence is to add more details. I also have a written example to show how it's laid out.

WildBoy/Brando Yelavich

As I read this book, it had many incredible things such as him traveling around the whole New Zealand coastline to donate charity, many tips about survival skills and important life lessons. This DLO shows a summarized text about a teenage boy named Brando Yelavich.